TP #9 Dana

      I was back to meeting up with Taku again at our classic Starbucks location. This time Takuya had a quiz to study for and requested that we work on prefixes and suffixes. He had a list of those which were to be covered on the quiz the next day, so we spent the whole hour working specifically on them.

     Since Taku had been studying prefixes and suffixes in class, I took this as an opportunity to create an oral quiz of sorts. First I asked Taku what prefixes and suffixes were as well as a few examples. He answered correctly, so we moved on to the rest of the quiz.

      I began asking questions by giving him the prefix or suffix, and allowing him to give me their definition and example. He knew most of these, so I switched up my questioning. “Which prefix means both and what is an example word?” I asked. This style of questioning was more difficult for him, however I think it strengthened his understandings of the parts of speech. By the end of my “quiz,” I was flipping from both styles of questions and he was quickly getting them right.

      I marked down the prefixes and suffixes he had the most trouble with during our quiz. Therefore the end, we went over those words a few times over. I gave him example sentences, explanations, and had him come up with his own sentences as a way to remember the words. I hoped he did well on his quiz.